This 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual cetacean-like shape of Belize's Lighthouse Reef. It's home to the famous Great ...

Justin Fuller photographed a humpback whale with its baleen exposed while on a Whale Watch tour with Rudee Tours in Virginia Beach. Baleen is a filter-feeding system that is a series of fringed plates ...

Dubbed the 'Great Blue Hole' of Belize, it is one of the deepest sinkholes on the planet. At about 300 feet deep, the hole ...

Three titans of the ocean were captured on camera in a “race” off the coast of Australia. Ant Rozetsky via Unsplash Despite being the largest animal on the planet, blue whales maintain a life of ...

There are one or two things one does not do in the company of great blue herons. First, if you are presented with a wounded heron that’s been confined to a burlap sack, do not open the sack to look in ...

Somewhere deep in the Pacific, off the sunset-lit cliffs of Big Sur and the fog-wrapped bluffs of Mendocino, the largest animal ever known to live on planet Earth has grown quieter. Blue whales, once ...

This video will give you goosebumps: the largest animal on the planet gracefully steaming straight toward a whale-watching boat. The "incredibly rare" sight was captured by Cape Ann Whale Watch off ...

Back from its first postwar cruise to the antarctic was Britain’s whaling fleet of three great “factory ships.” Instead of the 75,000 tons of whale oil which Britain’s Food Ministry had hoped for, ...